A University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets ...

The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025 revealed that the climate crisis was at a serious point and threatened ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected However, glaciers are much more than frozen ice. Just like oceans and rainforests, glaciers and ice sheets are teeming with life 3 – 5.

Glaciers carry unique organic carbon fingerprints that reflect geography and pollution, influencing ecosystems downstream.

For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

We wanted to show that these glaciers are not going back and forth. They are constantly being pulled back by a warming ...

Recent studies have suggested that melting ice sheets and glaciers could also affect this mass distribution and shift Earth's poles. In the new study, researchers at ETH Zurich used both the ...

The world has lost 5% of its ice volume over the past 20 years, with an annual melt of 273 billion tons, according to a ...

UCT researchers explored Antarctica’s Fimbul Ice Shelf, collecting data to model future climate shifts and marking South ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...